Germany: Record cocaine haul worth billions of euros seized – DW – 06/14/2024
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"Dozens of tons of cocaine have been taken out of circulation," German authorities said. The drugs were first uncovered in Hamburg last year.

“Dozens of tons of cocaine have been taken out of circulation,” German authorities said. The drugs were first uncovered in Hamburg last year.

Investigators in Germany have discovered a record amount of cocaine worth several billion euros, authorities reported on Friday.

“Dozens of tons of cocaine worth several billion euros have been taken out of circulation,” the Baden-Württemberg State Office of Criminal Investigation and the Customs Investigation Office in Stuttgart, as well as the Düsseldorf public prosecutor’s office announced.

The huge quantity of drugs was first discovered in the port of Hamburg last year, and, according to the German news agency DPA, originated in South America.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I don’t know of any studies, but I would suggest that even when cocaine was legal in the 19th century in much of Europe and the U.S., people were talking about the evils of alcohol a lot more. The massive temperance movements were mostly about alcohol, not drugs like cocaine.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperance_movement

    That implies, to me, that alcohol has always been a bigger problem.